| Title: | 04: Email – Explaining South Asia’s Relative Economic Backwardness |
| Author/s: | Shahid Javed Burki |
| Abstract: | Economists have now begun to accept that their discipline - even when two of its components, microeconomics and macroeconomics, are put together - does not fully explain all human behaviour. It also falls well short of providing an all-encompassing theory to explain the wealth and poverty of nations. In 1984, economics Nobel laureate George Stigler suggested that economics was on its way to becoming the queen of social sciences. He called his discipline an 'imperial science' which will conquer the entire land of social sciences. In 2006, an American economist published a book titled Freakonomics that became an instant bestseller. The reviewers applauded the book for using principles of economics to explain daily life. |
| Date: | 6 September 2011 |
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| Title: | 03: South Asian Diasporas |
| Author/s: | Shahid Javed Burki |
| Abstract: | 'Migration has shaped our world and will define our future' is the title of a recently published book that uses a number of new tools of research, including genetic tests, to trace the history of the movement of people since the birth of mankind.2 One conclusion the three authors of the book reach is that migration has always brought large rewards not only for those who were directly involved in it, that is, the migrants, it has also benefited the receiving and sending countries. It is, therefore, not surprising that the number of international migrants has doubled in the last quarter century to more than 200 million. |
| Date: | 19 July 2011 |
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